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Alice Guo's star was on the rise in the Philippines - until alleged links to a scam operation led to her downfall.

Employees who may have to return home risk death or imprisonment at hands of authoritarian governments
Foreign workers at US government-backed media outlets being cut by the say they face deportation to their home countries, where some risk imprisonment or death at the hands of authoritarian governments.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration to defund the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent federal agency that the Voice of America (VoA), the US’s largest and oldest international broadcaster, and provides grants to Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and other news agencies. The agency had with an annual budget of $886m in 2024.

President Donald Trump's plan to revitalize the U.S. shipbuilding industry is likely to backfire because it relies on proposed fees on China-linked vessels that will hurt domestic ship operators, ...

China is prepared for “possible unexpected shocks,” Premier Li Qiang told a gathering of global executives in Beijing, where he urged them to “resist protectionism” and defend globalization.

A House committee requested multiple universities provide information on Chinese students studying in the United States, prompting backlash.

Port fees on Chinese ships are aimed at boosting U.S. shipbuilding but could have follow-on effects for intermodal traffic, too.

Proposed American fees on Chinese ships could cause chaos in global trade, experts warn in "Bloomberg." In Germany, the transport of 17,600 tons of steel pipes to the US has been halted. Americans want Chinese operators to pay from $1 million to over $3 million for each entry of a Chinese ship.

Sen. John Kennedy is reintroducing the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act to ensure that all executives, regardless of where they live, must immediately disclose their trades, giving ...

Olivia and IIona Maher, two sisters from America, were stunned by the differences between a Chinese takeaway in the UK and the US after unboxing their dishes.

US TikTokers Olivia and Ilona Maher decided to try a UK Chinese takeaway for the first time - and they were left shocked by the differences between British and American versions ...

A broad trough has dragged in warm, moist air and offers perfect ingredients for heavy rainfall and even supercells
Northern parts of Australia have been under a flood warning this weekend, with further flooding set to bring havoc to south-eastern parts of the Northern Territory and western Queensland early this week. A broad trough – an area of locally lower pressure – has been moving across northern Australia, dragging in warm, moist air from the Gulf of Carpentaria and providing the perfect ingredients for the formation of severe thunderstorms, and even .
More than 70mm (2.75in) of rain fell in an hour under the slow-moving storms over the weekend in what is usually an arid, low rainfall zone with a desert/grassland climate classification. Some parts of the region have sparse observation data, but some local stations have been able to record more than 100mm within 24 hours, with 132mm of rain at Marion Downs, Queensland.

China reassured executives from American and European firms, including Apple, Qualcomm, Mastercard, Pfizer and AstraZeneca, that the world's second-largest economy is open for business amid a looming ...